Mumbai, Feb 10:
NIIT Technologies today announced bagging a Rs 228 crore turnkey intranet project from the Border Security Force (BSF), close on the heels of a similar project it carried out for the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
NIIT Chairman Rajendra Pawar told newsmen on the sidelines of the Nasscom India Leadership Forum here that the project involved setting up of a central data centre at the BSF headquarters and linking it 230 sectoral headquarters and battalions of the BSF. It involved setting up of the complete infrastructure, network and applications to facilitate operations management, integrated financial activities and human resource managaement for the force.
The project called the 'Intranet Prahari' aimed to make the force more agile and respond quickly to situations, he added.
NIIT Technologies Chief Executive Officer Arvind Thakur said NIIT Technologies had been successfuly implementing such projects to defence and paramilitary forces and was aiming to capture similar projects from the Railways and power sectors with the government announcing a Rs 10,000 investment in IT sector for power.
The supply and set up of the entire infrastructure of the project included establishment of a central data centre, ten mini data centres, a disaster recovery centre and infrastrucutre.
Besides setting up the necessary infrastrucutre in about a year's time, the project also involved a five year support service.
Mr Thakur said the government spending offered huge potential to the Indian IT companies. The government's IT budget was expected to incrase to 4.7 billion US Dollars from USD 1.4 bn some years ago.
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